At least in the West, politicians, corporations and media moguls can no longer take for granted their power to control the public discourse - and have it go unchallenged.

Film and the other creative industries are being transformed by digital technologies.

At its best, cinema does retain a remarkable ability to speak to people of every age, from every background, and in ways that almost any other art form in popular culture struggles to compete with.

I'm not naive enough to pretend that on its own cinema can capture the very soul of significant social and cultural problems.

There is no education system in the world - none at all - that's better than its average teacher.

The most important thing I think teachers can do for young people is to make them inquiring, is to ensure that they know how to gather information, that they check information and they take their information from a multiplicity of sources.

A country that fails to value its teachers, fails to value its future.